I have 3gb of data and very rarely go over 2 in a month until last month. I used 2.88 (a lot for me). Now I am 2 days into my new cycle and it says I have already used .77 What changed in the last 2 months and how is that much usage possible.
Have you went into settings you see what is using the data? Settings > Data Usage. Scroll through the list and see what apps or services are using the most data. It may be an app that refreshes frequently. If it is an app such as Facebook or a weather or other widget, set the update interval to a longer period. Some apps can have the Background Data disabled, but you need to be careful doing this, so as not to disable a system component that requires background data.
Thanks. I looked where you said and it is google play store that is eating up the data but only on my tablet. It is a slightly different version than on my phone 5.9.12 on the tablet and 5.7.10 on my phone. All the other settings are the same. The only difference I notice is on the tablet the background usage is .51 Should I restrict background data? It cautions about apps that depend on bg data and says you can find more appropriate data usage controls in the settings available within the app but I don't know what they mean. Thanks for your help.
You have to be careful restricting background completely, because system services require that BG data be on. Also apps like mail clients, Facebook, weather apps that update requires BG data to be on. Google Play Services requires it, or it will keep prompting you to enable it. You can restrict individual apps like Facebook and email, but you will have to manually refresh those appsapps. To disable BG data on apps, go back to Settings > Data Usage, scroll to the apps I'm the list, click the app. Look down towards the bottom there will be a prompt to Disable Background Data. Tick the box. It will ask if you are sure you want to do it, click yes. Should you encounter issuers, just reverse the procedure. The completely disable BG data, once you get to the screen where the usage summary is for the apps, at the very bottom on the right, there will be 3 horizontal lines, click that, the top option will be Restrict Background DataData. Click that, and choose OK. Again, of issues, just reverse the procedure.
Edit. You may want to set the Play Store to not auto update apps, since it constantly polls your apps.
